Hoeing implement.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

- P VEJROSTA HOEING IMPLEMENT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17, 1901.

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JTZ'Zorne FRANK VEJROSTA, OF SILVER LAKE, MINNESOTA.

HOEING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 1'7, 196?. Serial No. 393,257.

Patented July 7, 1908.

object a device of its kind which is more par-- ticularly adapted for hoeing corn and which reduces hand labor.

to said handles by means of the elevation of my invention; Fig. 2 is an end.

elevation showing the blades normally apart, and Fig. 3 is another end elevation showing the blades together.

In the drawings A re resents a yoke frame comprising a head bloc -2 and a pair of legs 3 and 4, the lower ends of which are pointed at '5 so that they can be easily inserted in the ground on opposite sides of a hill of corn for holdin the device steady. The u er ends of the legs are attached to the heaf l'ock by screws 6.

BB represent a pair of hoeing blades, the upper ends of whichare formed with inturned flanges 7. These blades are suspended within the yoke upon a pivot bolt 8 passing through the legs 3 and 40f the yoke and the flanges 7 of the hoeing blades. Each hoeing blade is rovided with anupwardlyextending hand e 9 which is secured thereto by means of bolts 10. These handles are ada ted for swinging the lower ends of the bladbs together. A helical drawspring 11 above the pivot bolt 8 and secured at its ends pins 12 is adapted to normally hold the blades separated as shown in Fig. 2. i

In use, the device is held by the handles and the legs inserted in the ground on each side of the hill of corn it'is desired to hoe, the blades being brought as near together as ossible around the stalks. The arms are t en swung together and the blades cut and remove the weeds from around the stalk. The yoke frame steadies the device while the blades are bein swung apart.

A device-of t is nature is adapted to operate quickly to efiect the results desired with a minimum amount of labor. It is not adapted for cultivating, but sim ly for removing weeds, or hoeing when t e corn is quite young.

In accordance with the atent statutes, I have described theprincip e of operation of my invention, together with the ap aratus which I now consider to re resent t e best embodiment thereof, but I esire to have it understood that the ap aratus shown is only illustrative and that t e invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set forth, within the scope of the following claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is I 1. A device of the class set forth, comprising a yoke frame rovided with a pair of legs to be inserted in t e ground, a pair of blades hung between said le s, handles attached to said blades for swinging them, and a spring holding said blades normally apart.

2. A device of the class set forth, comprising, a yoke frame provided with legs to be inserted in the round, blades hung between said legs, handles attached to said legs for swinging them, and means for holding said blades normally apart.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK VEJROSTA.

Witnesses:

- MORITZ HEIM,

F. G. BRADBURY. 

